Disciplines: Visual Arts – installation

Luba Drozd

Disciplines: Visual Arts – installation
Region: Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2019

I work with site specific video and sound installations that include sculptural elements. My synthetic spaces examine tangible and intangible structures of authority and their manifestations in a built environment. The final pieces gesture to how intangible spaces within us – such as memory, knowledge, and perception of time – are controlled and regimented.

My approach to materials is deeply rooted in equalizing, underlining the symbiosis between space, sound, viewer’s motion, light, and the moving image. Using vibrations to create sound compositions within sculptural and projection mapped video and 3D animated space, the components of my site-specific works continuously interconnect with architecture and each other. Suspending their materiality, they serve multiple purposes and do not exist as singular objects yet as multi-sensory entities in a synesthetic space. These immersive video and sound installations underline the connections between things we experience and experiences we create for others: the micro and macro simultaneity of violence expressed via built space and architecture.

Studios

Alexander

Luba Drozd worked in the Alexander studio.

Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…

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